M4 Still Closed As Alternative Olympic Routes Investigated

Surely every Olympics has its bête noire? With Beijing it was air pollution, Athens it was getting the stadia ready; with London it looked like it was going to be public transport but at the last minute, that plucky outsider, the M4, has come up the inside and is threatening to spoil the party.

The M4 is meant to be the major route into London from Heathrow during the Olympics and with athletes starting to arrive from this weekend, shuttling them round the capital's A roads instead of sweeping them through the Olympic Route Network will cause some red faces at LOCOG. The BBC's Tom Edwards has been looking into what Plan B might be if the repairs aren't finished in time, and TfL confirm they're looking at using the A40, A4, A30 and Heathrow Express.

The Heathrow Express? Deliver them into that hellhole which is Paddington Under Crossrail? Truck them up the slip road past the fag hounds and the delivery trucks? Charming. Welcome to London - the city where nothing ever joins up.

Karim

being an east londoner I can't wait for the event to finish so we can have the roads back and get on with our lives, I can imagine how hectic it's going to be when the Olympics are in full swing because olympic lanes had to be repainted prior to the olympics and we saw several dual carriageway lane closures and it took it's toll on road users in East London.

Nobody is looking forward tob the Olympics everyone I spoke to would prefer if the Olympics were hosted in another city somewhere up North or a different country altogether.